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Dyno Results 540 CID Indy 345 CNC #3198549
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This is the results of a friend's new big block Mopar engine.

New BMP aluminum block, new Indy heads 2023
540 CID, 4.500” x 4.250”
Aluminum rods
Indy 440-1 CNC 345 heads (Some work done after receiving from Indy, i.e. not Out-Of-The-Box)
Indy 4500 intake
1050 Dominator Carb
285/292 at 0.050", 108 LSA Comp roller cam (318/330 at 0.020")
Lift 0.753”/0.753” at 1.6, cam card 0.706”/0.706” at 1.5 rocker ratio

745 ft-lb at 5600 rpm
919 hp at 6900 rpm


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The pic of the Dyno curve wasn't very clear, so I plotted his numbers.

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Nice numbers. Compression ratio? Alchohol?


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~13 CR 12.7 CR
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Originally Posted by 440Jim
12.7 CR
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Interesting. Makes more Trq, and HP than my 563 with 345CNC heads, with less compression, cam, cubes, and carb. I must have done something wrong.


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Originally Posted by JERICOGTX
Originally Posted by 440Jim
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Interesting. Makes more Trq, and HP than my 563 with 345CNC heads, with less compression, cam, cubes, and carb. I must have done something wrong.

Precisely why there isn't a dyno racing class.


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Very stout numbers for that combination. Any idea why the compression ratio wasn't higher? Maybe they prefer to run a certain fuel, or have another car with that compression ratio so they like to keep things the same? I know bracket guys who build all of their engines with the same CR so they don't get confused on the tuning or fuel.

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This guy just buys parts and lets the builder put it together.
I told him over the summer the CR would be a little low unless he mills the heads. 78cc Indy spec
I think the cam has plenty of duration, and with 1.6 rockers that is the lift. I was surprised with the 108 LSA, but I didn't have anything to do with that either.
My friend didn't say, but from what I know of the machinist/builder, he would have zero decked the block to the pistons.

I do think he wanted to run 110 Sunoco, rather than more expensive stuff. But IMO, with that duration he could have run 13.5 CR.

I was expecting around 875 hp.

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What does that -8 +26 HP sequence indicate at 6700?
Would a carb spacer help smooth that out?


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As we all know what it runs in the car is the ultimate gauge. Dynos are dynos as they say. Dont get to caught up in those numbers especially when you dont have things like BSFC and correction to look at


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Originally Posted by jcc
What does that -8 +26 HP sequence indicate at 6700?
Would a carb spacer help smooth that out?


Could easily just be an issue with the dyno.....


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FWIW, Stuska dyno. Buck Racing
I am trying to get more info. But the owner didn't get much data.

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~13 CR 12.7 CR If milled from 78cc to to 75cc, about 13.1 CR

The owner just texted me. He said the shop did mill the new Indy heads, but he didn't know how much. And the paper work doesn't list the CR (blank).

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Originally Posted by jcc
What does that -8 +26 HP sequence indicate at 6700?
Would a carb spacer help smooth that out?


The dyno measures tq, and calculates the hp.

Since all the results are above 5252rpm, the differences from the tq curve will be exaggerated in the HP curve.

My guess is, looking at the jog in the tq curve, it was some sort of brief misfire(drop in tq), then the load cell gets a little tug when the misfire recovers(spike in tq).
If you applied some “smoothing” to the curve, in that area of the curve, the numbers should be more representative of reality.
Unless of course you see the same jog in the data on every run, in the same place…….. which still wouldn’t rule out a misfire, but would indicate something is creating the misfire(if that’s in fact the problem), and that it’s not completely random.


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Be interesting to see how it runs. I assume he runs at the same track as you? The engine looks great, nice looking parts.

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What is it going into Jim?


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Yes,
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Originally Posted by fast68plymouth
If you applied some “smoothing” to the curve, in that area of the curve, the numbers should be more representative of reality.

Me being a numbers guy...
I did a curve fit of the dyno torque, and then calculated the HP at each point from the "smoothed" torque equation. Here it is:

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And if I make a separate curve fit to the TQ from 6500-7500, and calculate the HP from that equation; the results are the gray/black HP numbers.
The original dyno HP numbers are shown in orange.

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Originally Posted by fast68plymouth
Originally Posted by jcc
What does that -8 +26 HP sequence indicate at 6700?
Would a carb spacer help smooth that out?


The dyno measures tq, and calculates the hp.

Since all the results are above 5252rpm, the differences from the tq curve will be exaggerated in the HP curve.

My guess is, looking at the jog in the tq curve, it was some sort of brief misfire(drop in tq), then the load cell gets a little tug when the misfire recovers(spike in tq).
If you applied some “smoothing” to the curve, in that area of the curve, the numbers should be more representative of reality.
Unless of course you see the same jog in the data on every run, in the same place…….. which still wouldn’t rule out a misfire, but would indicate something is creating the misfire(if that’s in fact the problem), and that it’s not completely random.


Thank you


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